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But you can't beat the convenience (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Take a look at this fan from the first half of the 20th century:

Note that it has a guard which protects the blades in case the fan falls over. However, the guard does not protect a person from accidentally sticking his fingers into the fan. Why not? It's not exactly complicated, it would have taken just a little more wire, and I'm sure people back then didn't enjoy having their fingers struck by metal blades any more than we would now.

People can be weird about safety...

[–] Coreidan 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rules for safety are often times written in blood.

[–] cybersandwich 3 points 3 months ago

I'm just imagining my toddler around this fan ..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

In college I bought a fan like this on a garage sale because I liked the look and it actually worked. I called it Mr. Fingersnaps and every time I ran it it was very loud and smelled bad.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 months ago

My mother almost cut her finger off on one of these fans when I was a kid. She needed a lot of stitches.